Quizzes

=Quizzes = ====There are a quite a number of sites that let you create quizzes for your students. Some sites let you create class lists and have control of student accounts. These sites have students take the quiz online and grade it for you. Others are on-line quiz/test creators for tests you print. Some sites have a somewhat limited free version, hoping you'll like it and pay for their "pro" or "premium" version. Some sites have to be downloaded onto your computer while others reside on the Web. When it comes to choosing a site, you have to decide which features are important to you and will work the best in your school setting. The following is a more in-depth look at two quiz sites: eQuizzer and Kubbu.====

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eQuizzer is a very basic site for creating a quiz that students take online (can also be printed). Visually the site it is not very stunning, but I chose it for what it offered. Creating a quiz seemed to be very straightforward, easy to use, lots of bells and whistles, resides on the web, and allows you to create and manage student accounts and best of all - it's free.


 * = **Strengths** ||= **Weaknesses** ||
 * < Lots of goodies - customizable options like timer, randomization, retakes, hints, calculator ||< Ads - a column of Google ads runs down the right side of each quiz, the ads I saw seemed to be education related and were only words - no icons, but could be a distraction ||
 * < Many different question types offered - fill in the blank, multiple choice, T/F, matching, short answer, multi-mark (allow more than 1 correct answer - or no correct answers) ||< Limited number of pre-made quizzes - also, quality of available quizzes was not great ||
 * < Ability for students to create own quiz with the teacher setting the parameters ||< Final quiz might be visually confusing for younger students. ||
 * < Create student accounts by importing from an Excel file, accounts are password protected ||< While creating a quiz is easy, hooking it to a class and publishing it is not - and there is little help (instructions) available on the site. This part of the process was definitely not intuitive. ||

As long as your students have access to a computer and have their username and password, they can take the quiz - at school or at home. This product is suitable for a variety of topics since there are many question formats to use. The following is a sample quiz about shapes for second grade students:





Kubbu.com is also a very basic web based software program that is designed to facilitate the creation of quizzes, crossword puzzles, and matching games- all referred to as "activities". Student accounts can be generated, access to students can be password protected, and data from the performance of the activities by the students can be extracted by the teacher. Students can perform the activities online, or the activities can be printed to hard copy.

From Kubbo.com, these are the types of activities allegedly available:

//Match - extended form of a classic matching excercise. It is an ideal tool for language practice. Matching helps assimilate new words, idioms, meanings, collocations, synonyms, etc.

Divide - used when some notions, terms, concepts or definitions must be classified into categories or groups.

Slider - a type of a dynamic quiz. It contains three types of activities, classic single and multiple choice questions with four answers, as well as a unique "climb up" quiz which leaves no place for mistakes.

Composer - a tool for teachers who want to introduce their own concept of a quiz. With Composer you can create quizzes with single and multiple choice questions, true/false questions, fill-in or short answer questions. Pictures as well as sound files can be used to make your quizzes fully multimedia and interactive.

Crossword - with a crossword generator you can create crosswords using your own list of words.//

Unfortunately, though we tried to access these tools, we were unable to access or use any of the activities we attempted.

pause or review a section of the tutorial- you had to start at the beginning to review. Web searches for help didn't find much useful info, perhaps because Kubbu isn't used much? ||
 * = **Strengths** ||= **Weaknesses** ||
 * < Multiple uses, varied activity formats-quizzes (multiple choice, free response, T/F, matching) practice, crosswords. ||< We were unable to access saved activities. ||
 * < Student performance data available to teachers. ||< Help consisted of set tutorials- no help search, and no ability to
 * < Answers can be available to students as immediate feedback. ||< Awkward, counter-intuitive, unresponsive. ||
 * < Free. ||< Only 30 total students allowed, and only 15 activities. ||
 * || Didn't work for us. ||

As the weaknesses far outweigh the strengths, this software is NOT recommended for usage in the classroom.